Md. Fazle Rabbe

• Master of Science
• Lecturer at University of Dhaka

The coastal areas of Bangladesh are enriched with migratory avian species but the actual status of birds was unknown, particularly in the south-central coastal region of the country. A yearlong (June 2023 to May 2024) direct field observation-based study was conducted to unfold the present status of the migratory avifauna in three protected areas (...

The Ganges floodplain of Bangladesh is one of the prominent bio-ecological zones that is enriched with wildlife resources. The natural wetlands and modified habitat in this area sustain a diverse range of avifauna. To uncover the present status, seasonality, habitat usages, existing threats, and conservation issues of avifauna, an eight year-long (...

A study of avifauna in Kaliganj upazila in Jhenaidah district was conducted from July 2020 to June 2021, using direct field observation method. A total of 153 species and 6175 individuals were observed, with the highest diversity of birds (64 species, 41.83%) recorded in the order Passeriformes and 10 species under family Accipitridae. The site wit...

The orthopteran insect group is poorly explored, and there is no confirmed record of any species under the Schizodactylidae family in Bangladesh. Here, we provided the first confirmed record of Schizodactylus monstrous under the family Schizodactylidae. A single individual of a species belonging to the family, a nymph of Schizodactylus monstro...

The Ganges floodplain of Bangladesh is one of the prominent bio-ecological zone that is enriched with wildlife resources. The natural wetlands and modified habitat support this area for holding diverse avifaunal biodiversity. For uncover the present status, seasonality, habitat uses existing threats, and conservation issues of avifauna an eight yea...

A study on avifaunal diversity was conducted in Bhawal National Park, Gazipur, Bangladesh, from November 2020 to October 2021 using direct field observation. The study area was divided into five sites based on the habitat structure. A total of 138 bird species and 1,808 individuals were directly counted, representing 17 orders and 49 families. The...

Dragonflies and damselflies help to assess the wetland ecosystem’s health and serve as indicator species. A year-long study from November 2021 to October 2022 was conducted to investigate the community structure of Odonata in Tetulia sub-district (locally called ‘Upazila’), the northernmost area of Bangladesh, under five study site areas. A total o...

The Bengal Monitor (Varanus bengalensis) is a large, ecologically flexible species and commonly found in many ecological settings including human-modified habitats. We conducted a study on the activity budget of this species employing the focal sampling method in the Chandpur district of Bangladesh. The Bengal Monitor spent the highest proportion o...

In the face of global forest ecosystem decline, non-protected transboundary areas like agroforestry can play a crucial role for conserving avian species. A comprehensive study on agroforestry birds in Tetulia, the northernmost area of Bangladesh, was conducted across four sites from November 2021 to October 2022. A total of 174 species (5479 contac...

Monitoring wildlife communities in protected areas is pivotal to successful conservation efforts. This study employed a direct observations-based approach to examine the diversity and community structure of wildlife in four protected deciduous national parks (Ramsagar, Birganj, Singra, and Nawabganj) in the northern Dinajpur district of Bangladesh....

A study on human-carnivore interaction during the COVID-19 has been conducted by direct field observation along with data from the news of social, print and electronic media. Seventy-three interaction reports were documented in which 12 species and 149 individuals were recorded. The highest interaction was recorded on Fishing Cat (34%). Considering...

Marjat baor is an Ecologically Critical Area located at the lower Ganges floodplain of Bangladesh. A yearlong study wildlife status, community structure and seasonal effect was made following direct field observation in the Marjat baor. A total of 186 vertebrate wildlife species (14 amphibians, 21 reptiles, 131 birds and 19 mammals) were recorded w...

A study was conducted on community structure, ecology, and conservation issues of the avifauna of two human-dominated landscapes in a lower Ganges Madhukhali Upazila, under the Faridpur district during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Direct field observations were made from April 2020 to March 2021. In total, 109 species of birds belong to 18 orders,...

A yearlong scientific study was conducted using direct field observation technique from November 2020 to October 2021 to investigate community structure, habitat preference, and conservation concerns of birds in the urban setting of Faridpur Sadar Upazila. A total of 168 species under 18 orders and 56 families were recorded and 6,551 individual of...

Trans-boundary habitats serve as the most excellent habitats for wildlife. However, species could also find some threats different from the other areas. At the same time, specialized agro-systems such as tea plantations can bring both possibilities for wildlife and make hazards for them. A comprehensive study of birds in Tetulia Upazila, the northe...

To scrutinize the present status of birds in a sub-tropical urban green space, a research work was conducted in Mymenshing City Corporation from November 2018 to October 2019 by direct field observations. Three green spaces were selected in the study area where in total 180 species of birds with 7,079 individuals were documented. Passeriformes had...

Islands are one of the fragmented ecosystems that cover an extensive range of microhabitats for diverse wildlife fauna. Biodiversity of this unique ecosystem tends to continuous degradation due to various natural and man-made pressure that primarily necessitates the assessment of the current status of species diversity for taking initiatives to pro...

Odonata is one of the smallest, amphibious, flying insects group consisting of dragonflies and damselfly which is an important ecological indicator, indicating the wealth of the ecosystem. Different studies show that a total of 102 species of Odonates including 57 Anisopteran & 45 Zygopteran species are recorded throughout Bangladesh but experts be...

Nowadays urbanization continues and poses a serious threat to wildlife globally. A survey-based study on wildlife was conducted for three years from March 2017 to February 2020 in Dhaka University campus. Data was collected through direct visual encounter observations. A total of 94 species of wildlife under 20 orders and 52 families were observed....

Oligodon russelius (Daudin, 1803) is closely allied to O. arnensis (Shaw, 1802) and distributed in the central, eastern and northern parts of India. The existing literature on the herpetofauna of Bangladesh provide few reports of O. arnensis, but O. arnensis is confined to southern India and Bandera et al. (2022) assigned northern records to the re...

Species diversity is an important parameter for monitoring ecology that can accelerate conservation planning. A study on the diversity, composition, and distribution of the herpetofauna in four districts of northwestern Bangladesh was conducted through direct field observations and plot counting during day and night from April 2017 to March 2018. A...

Non-human primates (NHPs) serve as necessary reservoir hosts of parasites that create diseases to human. A close interaction between human and NHP can make a pathway for transmission of zoonotic diseases. To prevent zoonotic infection of zoo keepers, park visitors as well as keeping the captive NHPs in healthy state, it is necessary to carry out re...

The species diversity and abundance of wildlife are the important indicators of a healthy ecosystem. A survey-based scientific study on species diversity, abundance and status of vertebrate wildlife was conducted from May 2015 to April 2016 at Sreepur upazila, Magura, Bangladesh. A total of 123 species of vertebrate wildlife was recorded during the...

The ecological effects of habitat use by herpetofaunal species vary widely and recognizing relative habitat value will help to improve conservation theory and practice in a particular landscape. To understand how different habitat uses influence diversity in riparian landscapes, we studied reptile and amphibian assemblages across major habitats (ag...

The ecological effects of habitat use by herpetofaunal species vary widely and recognizing relative habitat value will help to improve conservation theory and practice in a particular landscape. To understand how different habitat uses influence diversity in riparian landscapes, we studied reptile and amphibian assemblages across major habitats (ag...

The spotted flap shell turtle, Lissemys punctata (Bonnaterre, 1789) has a distribution in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan. In Bangladesh, this species is widely distributed throughout the freshwater wetlands and the low-lying floodplains, coastal islands, and hill districts. This species is listed in CITES (Appendix II) and protected...

People from different socioeconomic status show different attitudes toward herpetofauna. A study was conducted to investigate local people's perceptions and attitudes toward herpetofauna in four northwestern districts of Bangladesh. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire survey among 236 randomly selected people. Animals were divide...

Humans have been depending on wild animals from ancient times for food, medicine, economy, tools, and others. Santal and Oraon are two of the indigenous communities present in the Rajshahi district of Bangladesh. They practice wildlife hunting as part of their traditions. We investigated the wildlife hunting practice of these indigenous communities...

Urban environments harbour many species of wildlife. Such environments may provide a wide range of benefits, although these species could also face more threats in them than outside of the cities, without proper consideration. A comprehensive study of the wildlife in Dhaka, a megacity of Bangladesh, was conducted from September 2015 to November 201...

The world has been encountering a COVID-19 pandemic since late 2019. The world’s people have also witnessed the free movement of wildlife, even in many urban areas in some countries during the imposed lockdown. We conducted research on the birds in the urban landscape of Jamalpur Sadar upazila from March 2020 to October 2020 during this pandemic si...

Birds adopt different strategies for enhancing breeding success and, change in foraging tactics is one of them. Foraging abilities can differ between sexually dimorphic counterparts. We investigated the foraging participation of a sexually dimorphic pair of White-browed Wagtail in an urban area of Dhaka, Bangladesh. We recorded that the visiting fr...

Global amphibian populations are facing a novel threat, chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), which is responsible for the severe decline of a number of species across several continents. Chytridiomycosis in Asia is a relatively recent discovery yet there have been no reports on Bd-presence in Bangladeshi amphi...

A study on diversity, status, and habitat preference of avifauna was conducted from November 2017 to October 2018 in Magura Sadar upazila, Magura. Data was collected through direct field observations using line-transect method. Field surveys were made for three days per month in both rural and urban sites. A total of 140 species of birds belonged t...

We report a new record in Bangladesh of the Smooth-backed Gliding Gecko Gekko lionotum Annandale, 1905, recorded from a biodiversity hotspot area at Bandarban located at the southeastern side of the country. A freshly dead specimen was collected and donated to the Padma Bridge Museum for further identification and display. We confirmed identificati...

Human-snake interaction has an ancestral history with different outcomes at different times. This study was done to assess the student's perceptions of snakes and current superstitions practiced in some areas of northwestern Bangladesh. We interviewed 348 students from 7 educational institutions under 3 districts from January 2019 to April 2019. We...

Red-necked Keelback, Rhabdophis subminiatus has a wide distribution including Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam (Fig. 2) (Soud and Mojumder, 2007; IUCN Bangladesh, 2015; Uetz et al., 2019). In Bangladesh, R. subminiatus occurs in mixed evergreen forests of t...

Volume 30 (April 2020), 99-111 Published by the British Herpetological Society We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the knowledge base for amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) infection in the continent of Asia. Despite an indication of geographic bias in terms of studying chytrid fungus distribution in Asia, 167 amphibian...

Herpetofaunal species in Bangladesh are getting attention nowadays focusing conservation mainly in protected areas. Most of the recent herpetofaunal discovery is from non-protected areas of Bangladesh but management and conservation approaches are ignored in these areas. Therefore, a study was conducted on diversity, composition and distribution of...

Hemidactylus is a taxonomically complex genus and little is known about its feeding and breeding behavior in Bangladesh. Most of the species of this genus have a preference to live within human habitations, and play an important role in ecosystem, controlling insect pest population. Their breeding strategy is almost similar with each other and asso...

Species diversity is considered as an important parameter for indicating condition of biodiversity and ecology of an area. This study was conducted on the diversity, distribution and conservation issues of herpetofauna in northwestern Bangladesh from April 2017 to March 2018. Direct count of plots was done to know diversity and distribution, and qu...

Uperodon globulosus (Günther, 1864) has so far been recorded from 6 localities in Bangladesh over the past 3 decades. In June 2017, we found an adult female in a courtyard of a house in Jonail village (Natore district, Rajshahi division, Ban-gladesh), which is approximately 102 km southwest of the previous nearest previously known occurrence of thi...